History

James the Just was, in the time between Jesus' resurrection and James's death, the most prominent and widely respected leader in Christendom. These...

Despite the widespread popular sense that the Bible and the works of Shakespeare are the two great pillars of English culture, and despite the long...

An important volume of scholarship, this book presents a collection of documents previously little known and inaccessible to the English-speaking w...

Renowned theologian Robert McAfee Brown believes that Christianity cannot be fenced off or separated from the world, but must always be viewed in r...

The Bible was not written and received in a historical vacuum--in fact, the social and historical context of the Bible illuminates key understandin...

The Second World War was a time of great suffering, destruction and disruption. In Britain, there was mass conscription of men and women. SASRA res...

There will always be those among us who are unable to fully provide for themselves. In Sacramental Cocoa, Lynn Perry writes of her experiences with...

God commanded Moses and the children of Israel to observe feasts and holy days as memorials to the great things that he had done in their lives. Un...

The problems of morality are complicated by the competing perspectives that religion and philosophy sometimes bring to ethical discussions. Paul Di...

The global crisis of forced displacement is growing every year. At the same time, Western Christians' sympathy toward refugees is increasingly over...

"What does ""Protestant"" mean? What are the differences in worship among Protestants? Who were the Huguenots? What does the Reformation mean for u...

This readable, accessible narrative story of the Protestant Reformation is written for lay audiences. It is part of the popular Westminster John Kn...

An investigation of the New Testament canon and how it fits into redemptive history.

Scott Hendrix argues in this book that the sixteenth century reformers all shared the same goal: to Christianize Christendom, that is, to replant a...

Focusing on Israelite history from the tribal period through the time of Persian domination, Paula McNutt employs a social-scientific perspective t...

Rabbi Curt Landry, founding pastor of House of David Ministries, reveals how understanding the Jewish roots of Christianity leads to a more vibrant...

After the Berlin Wall fell, a group of Christian colleges in the U.S. seized the opportunity to begin strategic faculty and student exchanges with ...

In his book Old Testament Ethics: A Paradigmatic Approach, author Waldemar Janzen attempts to persuade readers of the predominance of story over la...

What is the church to make of the many new expressions of worship springing up across the nation and the world? A gathering of academic theologians...

New Testament Papyrus P47 A Transcription Stratton L. Ladewig, Robert D. Marcello, and Daniel B. Wallace The Center for the Study of New Testament ...

Recent years have seen an explosion of writing on the history of Israel, prompted largely by definitive archaeological surveys and attempts to writ...

Presents in the English language, and in convenient-size soft cover volumes, a selection of the most indispensable Christian treatises written befo...

“These synagogues have a special majesty of their own—and now Rabbi Yisrael Gellis, a tenth generation Jerusalemite, scion of a distinguished famil...

In the century between the 'Emancipation Proclamation' of Abraham Lincoln and the 'I Have a Dream' speech of Martin Luther King Jr., America sought...

St Anselm (d. 1109) is the most interesting theologian and philosopher of his time. In many respects, his career encapsulates the principal intelle...

With contributions from Chris Wright, Monty Barker and an original piece by John Stott himself, this beautiful coffee table book tells the story of...

Jesus – The First 10,000 Days explores the secret or hidden years of Christ’s life, the time before he began his ministry. By steering clear of the...

This book introduces us to St Bernard of Clairvaux through the lens of friendship. Close reading of Bernard’s writings, not least of his letters, b...

"The face of God" is a potent metaphor, like none other. To see God's face is something more than theoretical, mystical, or conceptional--and to se...

Christians often wonder whether it is worth their time to read and study the seemingly odd narratives about God’s instructions for the tabernacle i...

For a long time African history has been dominated by western perspectives through predominantly male accounts of colonial governments and missiona...

An Updated and Expanded Edition! Comprehensive and accessible, Formation of the Bible: The Story of the Church’s Canon is a succinct but detailed a...

In 2001 the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) conducted the U.S. Congregational Life Survey. More than 1.2 million worshipers and 12,000 congregations a...

Follow in the Footsteps of Your Saviour If you’ve ever wanted to walk the streets Jesus trod, hike the hills He travelled, pass through the doorway...

Over 200 international scholars from a variety of demoninations have contributed to this outstanding, one-volume, comprehensive, reference book. St...